Indian Daeji-sea Dredjing. 12J) 



BaTIIYPTEROIS, Crthr. 



41. lialhtf pterins Guentheri^ Alcock. 



liathipteroi^ Gumthcri, Alcock, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Ilist., Dec. l^'i!*, 

 p. 4.50. 



One wcll-prcsevved specimen from Station 112, 5GI fathoms. 



ScOPELUS, Gthr. 



42. Scopelns engraulis, Gtliv. 



Scnpelus engraulis, Giinther, ' Challenge!- ' Deep-sea Fishes, p. VM, 

 pi. li. fig. (1 



Two specimens (one youn^^, the other a mature female 

 nearly 5"5 inches long) from Station 115, 188 to 220 fathoms. 



There are seven large pyloric cffica, and an air-bladder is 

 ap])arently absent. 



In tlie young specimen, which is not quite 2*5 inches long, 

 the diameter of the eye is still contained 4i times in the 

 length of the head, and is greater than the width of the inter- 

 orbital space. 



Neoscopelus, Johnson. 



43. Neoscopelus macrolepidotus^ Johnson. 



Neoscopelus macrolepidotus, Johnson, P. Z. S. 1803, p. 44, pi. vii. 

 Scopelus jyuicrolepidotus, Gunthei; Cut. Fish. v. p. 414, and 'Challen- 

 ger ' Deep-sea Fishes, p. 196. 



Four fine specimens from Station 115, 188 to 220 fathoms, 

 all sexually mature. 



Colours in the fresh state : — Head, iris, sides of tongue, 

 and belly burnished silver, dorsum of body plum-purple, 

 Hanks golden. 



Family Stomiatidae. 



StOMIAS, Cuvier, 



44. Stomias elon,gatus^ sp. n. 



D. 19. A. 21. P. 6. V. 6. 



Body compressed, low, its height being one fifteenth of the 

 total without the caudal ; the length of the head measured 

 from the tip of the mandible is about one tenth of the same. 



Eye circular^ its diameter not quite one fourth of the head- 

 length, and equal to the width of the interorbital space. 



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